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THOMPSON v. THOMPSON (1910)

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THOMPSON v. THOMPSON
Term: 1910
Important Dates
Argued: October 27, 1910
Decided: December 12, 1910
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-3
Majority
William Rufus Day • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes

THOMPSON v. THOMPSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 12, 1910. The case was argued before the court on October 27, 1910.

In a 4-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Sex discrimination (excluding sex discrimination in employment)
  • Petitioner: Wife, or ex-wife
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Husband, or ex-husband
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 218 U.S. 611
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rufus Day

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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